"Taxus masonii Taxus masonii is an extinct species of conifer in the yew family, Taxaceae, solely known from the middle Eocene sediments exposed in north central Oregon. The species was first described from a series of isolated fossil seeds in chert. ""Taxus masonii"" has been identified from a single location in the Clarno Formation, the Clarno nut beds, type locality for both the formation and the species. The nut beds are approximately east of the unincorporated community of Clarno, Oregon, and currently considered to be middle Eocene in age, based on averaging zircon fission track radiometric dating which yielded an"
"Taxodium Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin word ""taxus"", meaning ""yew"", and the Greek word ""εἶδος"" (""eidos""), meaning ""similar to."" Within the family, ""Taxodium"" is most closely related to Chinese swamp cypress (""Glyptostrobus pensilis"") and sugi (""Cryptomeria japonica""). Species of ""Taxodium"" occur in the southern part of the North American continent and are deciduous in the north and semi-evergreen to evergreen in the south. They are large trees, reaching tall and (exceptionally ) trunk diameter. The"
"Lucus In ancient Roman religion, a lucus is a sacred grove. ""Lucus"" was one of four Latin words meaning in general ""forest, woodland, grove"" (along with ""nemus"", ""silva"", and ""saltus""), but unlike the others it was primarily used as a religious designation. Servius defines the ""lucus"" as ""a large number of trees with a religious significance,"" as distinguished from the ""silva"", a natural forest, and a ""nemus"", an arboretum that is not consecrated. A ""saltus"" usually implied a wilderness area with varied topographical features. A ""lucus"" was a cultivated place, more like a wooded park than a forest, and might"
"Thyine wood Thyine wood is a 15th-century English name for a wood from the tree known botanically as ""Tetraclinis articulata"" (syn. ""Callitris quadrivalvis"", ""Thuja articulata""). The name is derived from the Greek word ""thuon"", ""fragrant wood,"" or possibly ""thuein"", “to sacrifice”, and it was so called because it was burnt in sacrifices, on account of its fragrance. In Rome, wood from this tree was called ""citrum"", ""citrus wood"". It was considered very valuable, and was used for making articles of furniture by the Greeks and Romans. Craftsmen who worked in citrus wood and ivory had their own guild ""(collegium)"". Thyine"
"Tragus (plant) Tragus, commonly called bur gras, burr grass or carrot-seed grass, is a genus of plants in the grass family. It is native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and Eurasia with several species on islands in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans plus one species in Argentina. Plants are monoecious, stoloniferous, and either annual or perennial depending on the species. The genus has been introduced in subtropical and tropical areas around the world as weeds of disturbed areas. The culms (stems) are ascending or low and mat forming, glabrous, and circular in cross-section. Blades are flat or folded and linear,"
"from the Latin ""calcitrapa"" (foot-trap), such as in the French usage ""chausse-trape"". The synonymous Latin word ""tribulus"" provides part of the modern Latin name of a plant commonly called the caltrop, ""Tribulus terrestris"", whose spiked seed case can injure feet and puncture tires. This plant can also be compared to ""Centaurea calcitrapa"", which is also sometimes referred to as the ""caltrop"". A water plant with similarly-shaped spiked seeds is called the ""water caltrop"", ""Trapa natans"". Caltrops were known to the Romans as ""tribulus"" or sometimes as ""murex ferreus"", the latter meaning 'jagged iron' (literally 'iron jagged thing'). They were also"
"numbers indicate overgrazing. several species now regarded as better suited to other genera: ""Brachypodium Bromus Festuca Leptothrium Lolium Pseudechinolaena"" Tragus (plant) Tragus, commonly called bur gras, burr grass or carrot-seed grass, is a genus of plants in the grass family. It is native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and Eurasia with several species on islands in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans plus one species in Argentina. Plants are monoecious, stoloniferous, and either annual or perennial depending on the species. The genus has been introduced in subtropical and tropical areas around the world as weeds of disturbed areas. The culms (stems)"
"drop without warning. Fraxinus Fraxinus , English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The genus is widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. The tree's common English name, ""ash"", traces back to the Old English ""æsc"", while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also mean ""spear"" in their respective languages. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, simple in a few species."
"Crataegus Crataegus (), commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, or hawberry, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name ""hawthorn"" was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the common hawthorn ""C. monogyna"", and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland. The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus ""Rhaphiolepis"". The Latin name ""Crataegus"" is from the Greek ""kratos"" ""strength"" and ""akis"" ""sharp"", referring"
"Fraxinus Fraxinus , English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The genus is widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. The tree's common English name, ""ash"", traces back to the Old English ""æsc"", while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also mean ""spear"" in their respective languages. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly"
"Teil tree The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of teil as Latin ""tilia"" and Old French (13th to 15th centuries) ""til"". In Modern French it is ""tilleul"". The French and Latin word cognates appeared amongst the English literate classes starting in the 14th century. Most names of trees, however, kept their Germanic origins, hence linden and lime (a deformation of lind according to the OED). The linden or til tree is native to northern Europe and Asia. In various versions of Protestant Bibles the til is sometimes confused with the terebinth, which is a tree native to southern Europe,"
"Cereus (plant) Cereus is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae) including around 33 species of large columnar cacti from South America. The name is derived from Greek (κηρός) and Latin words meaning ""wax"" or ""torch"". The genus ""Cereus"" was one of the first cactus genera to be described; the circumscription varies depending on the authority. The term ""cereus"" is also sometimes used for a ceroid cactus, any cactus with a very elongated body, including columnar growth cacti and epiphytic cacti. ""Cereus"" are shrubby or treelike, often attaining great heights (""C. hexagonus, C. lamprospermus, C. trigonodendron ""up to 15 m). Most"
"during the Pliocene. Taxodium Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin word ""taxus"", meaning ""yew"", and the Greek word ""εἶδος"" (""eidos""), meaning ""similar to."" Within the family, ""Taxodium"" is most closely related to Chinese swamp cypress (""Glyptostrobus pensilis"") and sugi (""Cryptomeria japonica""). Species of ""Taxodium"" occur in the southern part of the North American continent and are deciduous in the north and semi-evergreen to evergreen in the south. They are large trees, reaching tall and (exceptionally )"
"Acanthus mollis Acanthus mollis, commonly known as bear's breeches, sea dock, bearsfoot or oyster plant, is a herbaceous perennial plant with an underground rhizome in the genus ""Acanthus"". It is regarded as an invasive species in some jurisdictions. The name of the genus derives from the Greek name of the plant ""ákanthos""; it was imitated in Corinthian capitals. This ""ákanthos"" is related to ""ákantha"" meaning ""thorn"" referring to the thorn-bearing sepals, or any thorny or prickly plant in Greek. The Latin name of the species, ""mollis"" meaning ""soft, smooth"", refers to the texture of the leaves. ""Acanthus mollis"" reaches on"
"has been suggested the word may originally have applied to Greek species of juniper and was later adopted for species now classified in the genus ""Cedrus"" because of the similarity of their aromatic woods. The name was similarly applied to citron and the word citrus is derived from the same root. However, as a loan word in English, cedar had become fixed to its biblical sense of ""Cedrus"" by the time of its first recorded usage in AD 1000. The name ""cedar"" has more recently been applied (since about 1700) to many other trees (such as western red cedar; in"
"tree. The genus name ""Scolymus"" derives from the Greek σχόλυμος (skolymus) meaning ""artichoke"". Pliny used this name for ""Scolymus hispanicus"". The species name ""hispanicus"" is Latin and means ""from Spain"", while ""maculatus"" is Latin and means ""spotted"", and ""grandiflorus"" is also Latin and means ""large-flowered"". ""Scolymus hispanicus"" it said to grow in the centre of Spain along roads and paths, particularly in unstable, loose and poor soils. The also grow in arable lands, both cultivated and fallowed, and in pastures. The florets are pollinated by insects. Around the Mediterranean, such as in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey,"
"the balsam tree and its branches or sprigs, as well as for its resin, ""opobalsamum"" (Pliny, Celsus, Scribonius Largus, Martialis, Statius, Juvenal) for the resinous juice of the balsam tree, and ""xylobalsamum"" (Pliny, Scribonius Largus, Cornelius Celsus) for balsam wood, all derived from Greek. Assuming that the ""tsori"" was a plant product, several plants have been proposed as its source. Celsius (in ""Hierobotanicon"") identified the ""tsori"" with the mastic tree, ""Pistacia lentiscus"" L. The Arabic name of this plant is ""dseri"" or ""dseru"", which is identical with the Hebrew ""tsori"". Rauwolf and Pococke found the plant occurring at Joppa. Ödmann"
"""Lamarchea"", ""Petraeomyrtus"", ""Phymatocarpus"" and ""Regelia"" be transferred to ""Melaleuca"". The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew lists ""Calothamnus"" and the other genera as synonyms of the accepted genus ""Melaleuca"". The move has not been adopted by all Australian herbaria with some taxonomists, including Alex George opposing the move. The name ""Melaleuca"" is derived from the Ancient Greek μέλας (""mélas"") meaning “dark"" or ""black” and λευκός (""leukós"") meaning “white”, apparently because one of the first specimens described had fire-blackened white bark. The common name ""tea-tree"" has been applied to species in the genera ""Leptospermum"","
"word that more modern translations translate as ""terebinth"" or ""oak – this seems to be the chief source of Web references to the name, but the linden tree does not grow in the middle east in present-day where the Bible verses are describing now. Teil tree The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of teil as Latin ""tilia"" and Old French (13th to 15th centuries) ""til"". In Modern French it is ""tilleul"". The French and Latin word cognates appeared amongst the English literate classes starting in the 14th century. Most names of trees, however, kept their Germanic origins, hence linden"
"Land, according to the Torah (Deut. 8). Jesus cursed a fig tree for bearing no fruit (). The fig tree was sacred in ancient Cyprus where it was a symbol of fertility. Video Ficus Ficus ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The common fig (""F. carica"") is a temperate species native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean region (from Afghanistan to"
"""Taxus""), which refers to its edible seeds that superficially resemble nutmeg () and its yew-like foliage. The seeds can be pressed for oil. The wood is used in construction and furniture. ""T. grandis"" is used as an ornamental tree in Europe and North America. Although known and utilized by the Chinese for centuries, the first European to discover ""Torreya grandis"" was Robert Fortune, who was hiking in the mountains of northeast Zhejiang in search of seeds, particularly those of ""golden pine-tree"" (""Larix kaempferi""). Encountering first two young cultivated trees, he managed to get guided to a valley with mature trees"
"""Thymus fragrantissimus"", ""Thymus serpyllum citratus"", ""Thymus serpyllum citriodorum"", and more. It was also believed at one time that the plant was a hybrid of European garden origin, between ""Thymus pulegioides"" and ""Thymus vulgaris"". DNA analysis has shown that ""T. citriodorus"" is not part of the DNA tree that includes ""T. pulegioides"" and ""T. vulgaris"". Cultivars are selected for foliage color, and aromas of different citrus fruits. The following are sold by various nurseries, often under the synonyms, so scientific naming is not reliable: Thymus citriodorus Thymus citriodorus, the lemon thyme or citrus thyme, is a lemon-scented evergreen mat-forming perennial. There"
"the ""civic oak crown"". Linnaeus described only five species of oak from eastern North America, based on general leaf form. These were white oak, ""Quercus alba""; chestnut oak, ""Q. montana""; red oak, ""Q. rubra""; willow oak ""Q. phellos""; and water oak, ""Q. nigra"". Because he was dealing with confusing leaf forms, the ""Q. montana"" and ""Q. rubra"" specimens actually included mixed foliage of more than one species. Oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin ""oak tree"") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name ""oak"""
"from Greek two thorns. The larvae of Chilecomadia moorei feed on this plant. They are highly appreciated by terrarium enthusiasts for their use as live food for reptiles and amphibians. Dasyphyllum diacanthoides Dasyphyllum diacanthoides. Distinctive common names: Trevo and Tayu is a species of tree endemic to Chile and Argentina in the Asteraceae family. It occurs from Curico to Chiloe (35 to 42°S) between 200 and 800 m above sea level. It grows on moist and shaded sites and on arid soils. It is an evergreen tree or that measures up to 15 m (50 ft) tall and over 2"
"the ""Thuja orientalis"" is a native of Japan. He suggests, however, that the ""Thuja articulata"" of Mount ""Atlas"" (""Tetraclinis articulata"") may have possibly been the citrus of ""Pliny"". Bostock and Riley place the tree in the ""Thuja"" genus. Of note in contradiction of Bostock and Riley, the land of the Sabians is echoed in the name of ""Juniperus sabina"". Stobrum is also noted in early Indian economic history: R.N. Saletore notes it, again on Pliny's reference: The Arabs imported the fragrant wood of the bratus tree from the country of the Elymaei, the stobrum from Carmania, cinnamon from Ethiopia and"
"red cedar. While some naturalized species of cedar (""Cedrus"", the true cedars) can be found in the Americas, no species is native. Both the Latin word ""cedrus"" and the generic name ""cedrus"" are derived from Greek κέδρος ""kédros"". Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, ""kédros"" and ""cedrus"", respectively, for different species of plants now classified in the genera ""Cedrus"" and ""Juniperus"" (juniper). Species of both genera are native to the area where Greek language and culture originated, though as the word ""kédros"" does not seem to be derived from any of the languages of the Middle East, it"
"""fig"" has its origins from the Latin word, ""ficus"" as well as the older Hebrew name, ""feg."" The name of the ""caprifig"" (""Ficus caprificus"" Risso) is derived from Latin, with ""capro"" referring to billygoat and ""ficus"" referring to fig. ""Ficus carica"" is a gynodioecious (functionally dioecious), deciduous tree or large shrub, growing to a height of , with smooth white bark. Its fragrant leaves are long and across, and deeply lobed with three or five lobes. The complex inflorescence consists of a hollow fleshy structure called the syconium, which is lined with numerous unisexual flowers. The flowers themselves are not"
"Oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin ""oak tree"") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name ""oak"" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ""Lithocarpus"" (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as ""Grevillea robusta"" (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus ""Quercus"" is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest"
"is derived from the Ancient Greek, κεάνωθος (keanōthos) 'spiny plant'. The name was originally used by Theophrastus for another plant, and Linnaeus reused it for ""Ceanothus"". ""Thyrsiflorus"" is derived from the Ancient Greek word, Thyrsus, meaning a 'contracted panicle', 'wreath', or 'thyrsus'. ""Florus"" is derived from Latin and means 'flower', and so ""thyrsiflorus"" means 'with flowers arranged in the shape of a contracted panicle or thyrsus staff'. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, known as blueblossom or blue blossom ceanothus, is an evergreen shrub in the genus ""Ceanothus"" that is endemic to California. The term 'Californian lilac' is also applied to this"
"Lugo in Spain and the ""Lucus Feroniae"" near Capena. ""Lucus"" is therefore part of the Latin name of several different ancient places in the Roman Empire from which the modern name derives, including: Lucus In ancient Roman religion, a lucus is a sacred grove. ""Lucus"" was one of four Latin words meaning in general ""forest, woodland, grove"" (along with ""nemus"", ""silva"", and ""saltus""), but unlike the others it was primarily used as a religious designation. Servius defines the ""lucus"" as ""a large number of trees with a religious significance,"" as distinguished from the ""silva"", a natural forest, and a ""nemus"","
"Pterocarpus Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic ""Pterocarpus"" clade within the Dalbergieae. Most species of ""Pterocarpus"" yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk); other common names are mukwa or narra. ""P. santalinus"" also yields the most precious rosewood in China known as Zitan. The wood from the narra tree (""P. indicus"") and the Burmese padauk tree (""P. macrocarpus"") is marketed as amboyna when it has grown in the burl form. The scientific name is Latinized Ancient Greek and means ""wing"
"although in many respects defective, especially in its syntax, was for a long time the leading textbook. His translations into Latin were very numerous, including: He also turned into Greek Cicero's ""De senectute"" and ""Somnium Scipionis"" with much success, in the opinion of Erasmus; with more elegance than exactitude, according to the colder judgment of modern scholars. He was the author also of two small treatises entitled ""De mensibus"" and ""De origine Turcarum"". The flowering plant Gazania, of southern Africa, is named after him. Theodorus Gaza Theodorus Gaza or Theodore Gazis (, ""Theodoros Gazis""; ; ), also called by the"
"ancient greek word (), meaning ""mouse, rat"". ""Toromys"" is the sister genus to ""Pattonomys"". These taxa are closely related to ""Echimys"", ""Phyllomys"", and ""Makalata"", reflecting the fact that ""Toromys grandis"" and ""Pattonomys occasius"" have formerly been placed in ""Makalata"" by some authorities. In turn, these five genera share phylogenetic affinities with a clade containing the bamboo rats ""Dactylomys"", ""Olallamys"", ""Kannabateomys"" together with ""Diplomys"" and ""Santamartamys"". Giant tree-rat The giant tree-rat (""Toromys grandis"") is a species in the family Echimyidae, the spiny rats. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Toromys. It is endemic to Brazil, where it occurs"